"In Snakeberry Mamas, Mary Alice Dixon casts a luminous eye on the hardscrabble sacred-braiding grief, grit, and grandmotherly magic into song. These are poems of invocation and inheritance, rooted in the red clay and mythos of mountain women who birth themselves from 'bloodroot' and 'fire.' Dixon writes with fierce tenderness and hard-earned clarity, inviting us into a world where 'owl women brush you with wishbones' and 'the moon bleeds' our names. This is Appalachian lyricism at its most incantatory, subversive, and deeply alive." AE Hines, author of Adam in the Garden and Any Dumb Animal

"A wild, witty, and sometimes wicked witchery informs the poems of Mary Alice Dixon's Snakeberry Mamas. Herein, unforgettable Appalachian landscapes are voiced by characters-familial, historical, and mythical-who evoke a vision of transformative potions and folkloric wisdom. Snakeberry Mamas celebrates the strength of women as healers and magicians with poems that cast their welcome spell on the reader." Stuart Dischell, author of Good Hope Road and The Lookout Man